- You can't take this in.
- Please. - There must be no fruits or vegetables.
That includes...
pomegranates. That's in your form.
-I like to eat seeds from these fruits.
All day. For good luck.
-Sorry, you can't.
[announcement]: For reasons of security, don't leave
your bag is unattended. Veuillez garder avec vous
vos bagages a main en tout temps
pour des raisons de securite.
-What are you doing?
-Through this, I don't have to bring it in.
I eat here, at the gate of your country.
See.
So, there's luck in my stomach.
Want to try?
-You know?
I almost completely forgot you were partying.
-I told him... The party isn't the point.
In fact, you changed like this
without letting anyone know.
It entered sense to me.
-Why do I have to tell people?
-No I mean you need permission.
What permission?
-Celia, try to understand the point of view.
Raffi, don't talk about your mother.
Why can't I read your book?
-Wait just get out.
-But you already.
-Give your copy. -Not.
-Why?
I'm part of the family. -Begini, I promised him that I...
-What? -I won't give my copy.
- Please. -Celia, come on.
-I made it difficult to become a perfect child.
Sorry.
-I don't understand why should it be like this.
-Yes you know.
-I used to be happier when we got along well.
-That's not fun. -Who says it?
- Help my father-- my father, not your father.
Your father died like a hero.
My father died in a stupid accident, according to him.
You pursue your dreams, Raffi. And I will chase mine.
-Do you give him my book?
-It's too weird for me.
-What's weird about Raffi?
Sucking marijuana? Or sleep with adoptive sister?
-I'm old enough to know-- -What do you mean Raffi?
Is this all normal?
That he should continue to harass me?
Tell people that I am responsible for the death of his father?
Nobody asked him to come here. He should be able to stay in Montreal.
-He needs us.
-What he needs is to destroy me the same way
like I destroy it.
-Mother... -He will never understand why did I stop loving his father.
-Or meet someone else?
-I am not responsible for him.
-I am.
-Why?
-Because I love him.
-Thank you. -Tony, why don't give thanks.
-For what we will thank, may God
makes us truly grateful. Amen. -Min.
- Daddy?
-Yes.
-Why don't say "Amen"?
-Well I say inside.
Where in?
-In my head.
- Can God hear in your head?
-What do you think Father?
- God hears all your thoughts.
-But if you don't believe in God.
Grandpa, that's not what happened actually.
- Until we meet. -Bye, grandfather.
-This is the situation, Father.
Whenever Tony comes alone, he's fine.
We play, laugh, He is very happy.
Whenever you are, he becomes silent and alone.
-That's not true Philip. -And we can't stand it.
More you press...
-Pressure?
He likes it when I'm there.
-More you bring this heavy cloud into our apartment,
more he believes our way of life is wrong.
-Now, I've never said that to him.
-You don't have to. He can feel your disgust.
-Philip...
- And where did he get it... Ali didn't believe in God?
-He asks why your friend is not thanking us--
- My friend. -I told him he had God himself.
And that's true.
Philip, I...
I tried hard to... accept all this. Right.
- Daddy...
You will retire soon.
You will have a lot of time.
Between you trying changes your attitude,
or you don't... is accepted at our place again.
- Where did you come from?
-Turkey.
-Can you open this?
What is this?
-This is a movie. -Movie motion pictures.
For a film.
I have, uh...
-This is usually done through a merger.
-Well, they want I send with my own hands.
-Who are they?
-This record is valuable.
-Can you open it? -Not.
This is an unprotected film. Will be damaged.
-Oh?
-This is for movies that are currently recorded in Canada.
I have to go to Turkey to get some retrieval processes.
- Taking process? -Take up to be used
for digital effects. And the dish. Like that.
-I don't understand.
-Will need scenes from hundreds of people
passing through these places.
And it's too expensive to bring actors or extras to a distant place, so we take a blank image from its location.
It's cheaper for people to add later.
-Huh.
I'll be back.
-Arshile Gorky remains the most influential figure
in modern art.
Famous paintings, "Artists and mothers,"
based on image taken in 1912;
the only picture that still exists from the artist's early life
in the original land.
Gorky is seen holding a bunch of small flowers
as a gift of fragrance to his father who is not present,
expected recipient from this amazing picture.
-I am confused.
Has Gorky changed his name at this point?
-No.
He changed it in his twenties,
after arrival to America.
-Celia, sit down.
-Gorky seems too serious too soon.
With almond-shaped eyes and oval-shaped face,
her hair is combed neatly aside,
Shushan looks bravely in front of the camera,
challenging her husband who isn't present-- -Challenging?
Why did you say that?
Isn't that clear he knows
Armenians were going to be slaughtered? He went to America to prepare life for his family.
They want to send him a portrait
to tell that they are still alive.
Nobody challenges-- Gorky never understands
why doesn't his father come back.
-Celia, sit down sajahlah.
- Didn't you mistaken Gorky's father with your dead husband?
I mean, your first husband died.
Who was shot by the police. The terrorist.
- Sit down.
- resident. We are here to listen to this lecture.
-Come on.
"Artists and mothers" is not just a painted version
from a portrait.
The difference is underlining expressive elements
which makes it into art
very great.
Gorky's respect for his mother is tied to holy qualities.
His experience as a survivor of the extermination of the Armenian people
it is at the root of its spiritual power.
With this painting, Gorky has saved his mother from neglect,
take it from a mound
to put it on the base of life.
I'm just surprised see you here.
I've seen all your films and I really--
-Please.
- It's the one who rejoiced over this.
I have written this play for forty-five years,
do as much as possible research
and you come with this. -With what?
-Well, Gorky is a child when the rebellion in Van,
where he is there. It was amazing.
- My mother is a person who survived the extermination.
My whole life, I promised to make a film that told her,
how he suffered.
And now, we made this film.
-I don't understand something.
Is Gorky in your film?
-Not yet.
- Previously when you spoke, we were happy
about entering it. As another character.
Well, not all new characters,
but a character that we can wake up.
This amazing artist as a young child...
It would be great to have you as a consultant.
-You have the pot, as a gift
from dust which has been destroyed.
We can open this gift together.
-What happened?
-Why are you carrying my father?
Well, he didn't run away.
Ok my mom just has to keep a distance from her.
-Huh. To save the family. -He is not a terrorist.
-I didn't say yes. -You say he's a terrorist.
-Who?
I think you should see that way.
He will kill a diplomat.
-He used to be a freedom fighter. Celia, there is a difference.
-Sure, that's really great way.
Much better than my father jumping from a cliff.
- Jump.
-He committed suicide. -Well, that's new.
I think the story about my mother pushed her from the abyss.
-News.
Do you think I'm making it up?
-No... is not what I mean.
-Raffi, I say
that what happened to my father meant.
I know nobody cares, but I care.
-Well, then how does make it mean,
what happened to my father?
Just do it.
-How?
-You go there.
And you tuck it in here.
And you listen to the boom.
All night, all day.
With that, you will not forget.
- Mount Ararat.
When I was little,
my mother used to say this is ours.
Even though it's far away.
And I used to be used to dreaming the way to approach it,
to make me the one I used to be, to be me now.
-Marty,
this book is the key to your character.
This is the actual diary from Clarence Ussher,
published in Boston and New York in 1917.
Every scene in this film
based on this document.
Think about that. This is an original story
from a man who saw the entire community was deleted and sick of it.
So you can't play it-- -I've read this book.
Also every material available
most of which are instructions from that area or these people
or annihilation of the Armenian people.
I am currently rereading the Bible with Ussher in mind,
Be outside of that, more...
depends on my imagination.
And now I'm here to make a film with Edward...
Saroyan.
OK?
-This painting is very popular even 100 years ago,
when it was painted. And is very popular now.
People like this painting. And I think because...
warm, safe images from two small children.
We can feel these two small children in front of the fire,
warms themselves after they take a bath...
-How?
-Good. -You can?
Does he like you? -I thought.
[ring! ]
Hello.
yes Oh, my God!
Oh my God! -Good news?
-He just got the big part. In a film.
- Let me call you back.
Because I'm in a gallery and I can't talk.
-You play a nice guy or a bad guy?
-I played a very -bad person.
Rah !!
Rah!
-Leave your weapon outside!
Bring him in. Take off the shirt.
And prepare him for surgery.
To make sure we get help,
I send each of you to send a copy of this letter.
[Armenian]
The letter says to Americans or any foreign consul,
that there is an internal problem in Van.
[Armenian]
So tell American government that Americans live in danger.
[Armenian]
-and cut.
-That's a piece. -Ok everything.
- Everything you see here is based on what my mother said.
Which?
-You won't be able to see Mount Ararat from Van.
-Yes, but I think it will be important.
-But it's not true. -That's true in the soul.
-See what you can do ok? And tell me.
Ok I have to go. Yes.
Ok, I'll talk to you later. Ok Bye.
Sorry, I just got a call.
-Rouben, Ani is confused about that mountain, Ararat.
He has paid close attention
that it will not be seen from Van.
-Well we think we can relax a few things.
I mean, it's an identifiable symbol
and given a moment in history that we tried to show,
I just-- -So that's something
can you correct it? -Of course.
- Where did you get it from?
-Where you can.
-So that's my job?
To let you feel better about distorting things?
- Young people in our film
told by Ussher to send a letter.
He was caught by Turks.
- That is the character that we will put on Gorky.
-How do you do that?
-Ok. Until April 1915,
The Turks have completely surrounded the Armenian residence.
In this place, inside this fortress,
The American mission, driven by Doctor Clarence Ussher. Ok?
Outside, several hundred men are armed with ancient weapons
surrounded by by good armed forces
with the latest European artillery.
Miraculously, through their intelligence,
or their cooperation,
they can hold the position of Armenians,
but they are completely isolated.
They are cut off from the outside world.
Ussher however gives news to the outside world
about what will happen.
And so he hoped one of these children...
Gorky, it will work.
-So do it.
-That's it? -That's what you say?
Edward Saroyan is one of the greatest directors in the world.
- Twenty years ago. -Yes...
-Red.
-Raffi, you know how long I've been working on this.
If you can help tell the story of Gorky...
Just do it.
What? -Why are you still sleeping here?
-This is my house.
- Doesn't he want you there?
-It's not comfortable. Too moist.
-Can we talk about what happened that night?
-Sure. - That's why he wants to read
my book, so he can embarrass me?
-So fight back. -Don't be silly.
He doesn't know anything about art. And I certainly won't responds to the accusation.
-You like to do a good work .
-What are you talking about?
- Only the way you use history is like a weapon.
I mean, talking about Gorky's mother
as a way to attack Celia's problem.
-The Celia problem. Are you crazy?
That was a prepared lecture.
Raffi, he wants to believe that I killed his father,
that I pushed it from the cliff. Will I do that?
Do you want to believe that your mother is a murderer?
Is that a little maybe to you?
- Her new theory that you made her jump.
-How? -He thinks
the entire last chapter of the book is...
a way to admit mistakes. -Oh, I see.
The idea that since Gorky committed suicide,
his father must be too.
- It's easier to play with it.
-Not as easy as you think.
Raffi,
he wants his father's death to be more meaningful.
That makes a reason for him.
- We all know how dangerous it is.
-He has no right to compare it with a man.
Your father died for something that he believed.
-I just wish I had an idea about what it was.
-This film was recorded in Toronto almost a year ago.
-Yes, right.
-And now you come back from Turkey
with this set of recordings?
Well this tells me you work in this film
as production assistant and driver.
This is a letter recommendation
for future work. That doesn't explain
why did you come back from Turkey a few months later.
-There is something that they want me to add in Turkey.
They add a character.
They? -Yes, the director.
And the writer. And my mother.
-Your mother?
-Yes. -He is a professor in the field of art history.
He was a consultant in the film.
He, got a job for me.
-So who is this new character?
-Arshile Gorky. The painter.
- Turkish painters. -A Armenian.
-Why are you
went to Turkey to record an Armenian painter?
-Well, that's where he came from. He was born there.
Armenia is a historical part of from Eastern Turkey. Anatolia.
-And they sent you alone?
Without a crew?
-Well, they don't get permission to send the crew there.
-Why not? -Well it's not that easy
to record stories about annihilation of the Armenian people in Turkey.
This is politically sensitive...
- In what way?
-Because Turkish people in authority don't want to admit that happened.
-Oh why not?
-Yes, you have to ask them.
-So What is this story about?
Your father is very kind.
-Effendi. -Yes.
-Can we discuss payment?
-You know what I'm thinking
when did I see these faces? -No Effendi.
-I think what's on their mind when they stare at your camera.
Their desperate desire to be remembered.
For what.
Payment is a sign of thank you right?
-Ya Effendi. -Let's check
what you have to thank you for.
A man in my position has chosen you to take his portrait.
And does this make you _ authoritative?
Honor?
How will you give congratulations?
You're welcome.
Do you want to thank me too?
-Stefan!
-Other times, another thing.
Different ways to...
expressing thanks.
-But sending us from crime. [Armenian]
You belong to the Kingdom.
And strength
and grandeur
[both: Armenian]
[both]: Amen. [all]: Amen.
-Now I want you to remember this must be nailed
on the back end of the leg.
Not on the site, because there are no bones
if on site. It will escape.
-Ahhh! Ah! Ah!
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ahhh!
-A appeal for Christian help.
Does the spreader of your religion feel tortured?
We have planted you Greeks and Armenians with strength and freedom. You should
thank you !!
[faraway screaming]
Is this your mother?
-Well, he gave you this picture
so you can remember it.
Look at that.
This is the face of a woman who has raised you to feel stronger than us.
He taught you that Turks are vengeful and stupid.
That we are blood thirsty.
I will teach you something.
What happened to your people is due to your own mistakes.
How much have you been talking about your Jesus? in the depths of your soul, you don't believe anything...
except trade and money.
My path is filled with your trade and money borrowers.
Your greed has directed us to corruption and collapse.
Now yourself will be destroyed.
Return this to your American religious preacher.
Take it !!
Restore that .
He must sign it. If not, he must receive 50 from my army
in a joint mission. Do you understand?
- You say the character
giving something to the child to be brought back to the propagator of religion
for him to sign. -That's a document
which states that Ussher refused Turkey's protection.
-But it's clear. He helped protect Armenians.
-Right.
Actually, Ussher and Jevdet Bey met several times before.
He tried to stop it from his plan.
-What plan?
- For destruction.
More than one million people were killed.
Ancient civilization lives on ancestral land.
It is systematic and is fully planned.
The entire Armenian population from East Turkey
obliterated.
-Now I need permission to put 50 soldiers with supplies
in your joint mission.
-Why?
-Well to protect you course.
-We are under the protection of from America.
-American.
They are very far away.
-No safe to send many Turkish soldiers
into center of Armenia.
Usually it will create problems.
From what danger do you try to protect us?
-If you have an problem with carrying my army,
You must sign this statement
that you refused protection from the Turkish government.
[Raffi]: If Ussher signs the document,
it will be like giving Turkish people permission
to slaughter Americans in the camp.
In the same way
they massacred Armenians outside.
-You confuse me.
-Well, that's the same document that he gave to the child.
If the American government ever made an investigation
in the incident, that statement,
documents that Turkish people want Ussher to sign,
will confirm that Americans offered protection
but they refused.
-And if he let them in?
-Well, Turks will use it as a strategic point.
With that many soldiers and artillery based on mission,
they will have support in the center of Armenia.
- A trojan horse.
-Right.
-So what did he do?
- Our reason is part of America.
They are foreigners because of the agreement.
Fully neutral.
And we will maintain this neutrality to the end.
[Armenian]
-They were once heroes.
What happened in Van in April 1915
is amazing self-protection .
We haven't done something like that
since we drove out the Persians.
-And when is that ?
-451.
-Yes like I said...
we are back.
-Can you return to your office?
-I don't know why did I use this sword.
It's not in the movie, so it's ridiculous.
This is very narrow, I can't... What must be this tight?
-I want to thank you. -You are kidding?
-Ok, we're going to take over from here ok?
-This is luck for me.
You're one of my favorite directors.
I want to thank you.
Can I ask something?
Did you put me in because I'm half Turkish?
-No.
Because I think you will be perfect for this part.
- But being Turkish isn't painful.
-Ah no.
-You never asked my opinion about history.
-What can you think about?
- Do I believe that happened.
An annihilation.
-Well I'm not sure that's a problem.
-I don't want to waste your time,
I'm just... When I'm...
plays a role, it should...
come from here.
Not here. Ok?
Because I did research and...
I think Turkish people have a reason to believe that Armenians are a threat to their security.
Their eastern border is threatened by Russia and, if they believe that the Armenian
will betray them...
So this is... a war.
The population moves throughout time. So--
-Then,
Thank you for your work.
-Ali, we are ready.
- Your car is behind. I will take you home.
Mr. Saroyan!
-Yes?
-Why don't you answer it?
-Because he's sorry plays that role.
I understand. He will get anger from his people.
-but he thinks Turkey is always at war with Armenia.
Doesn't that bother you that he doesn't understand history?
-No.
-Why don't explain to him that we are residents,
we were residents of Turkey.
We have the right to be protected.
-You took him home?
-Yes.
-Huh. Bring this.
Buy him a bottle of champagne.
Let him think he did something...
special?
- Something special.
-Sorry Mr. Saroyan. I do not understand.
-Young, you know what is still causing
feeling very sick?
Not losing people,
or land.
But knowing about that we can be very hated.
Who is this person,
who really hates us?
How can they still deny their hatred?
And really hates us...
even more?
-That's a good scene.
-Thank you.
-Definely feels weird like that.
-Yes.
-I grew up with all these stories.
Turkish people are evil and everything, so...
I'm a little immune to it all.
But what did you do today, it...
Makes me feel all that anger again.
-Hey thank you.
So I accept you...
An Armenian.
-Well, that's I mean,
you know, grew up to feel hatred for...
the person you are playing. -Right.
-You succeeded.
-Well, it's hard to disappoint you.
-What do you mean? -Yes you're a little ready
to hate my character you say.
-Yes sure.
But I'm also a little suspicious on page
which should make me feel anything. You know?
When I see it, I even think I know you
you should make me feel like hating you,
I fight that. But...
Then the end of the scene, I'm just...
-You feel like killing me.
-Yes.
My father was killed for trying to kill a Turkish diplomat.
That's almost 15 years ago.
I never understood...
what made it want to kill...
what should he imagine that what the Turkish ambassador represents.
But now, you give feelings
from what happened in his head.
I want to thank you.
-Well...
You're welcome.
-Sial.
-What is this?
-This is from Edward. He wants to give it to you.
And thank you.
-Now, is this before or after my conversation with him?
-after. I thought he wanted to show no hurt.
-Ah.
-Ok Thank you.
-Are you serious about what you said to him?
-What?
-What don't you think is happening?
-What? The destruction? -Yes.
-Will you shoot me or what?
This is how I never heard anything about this when I grow up. You know?
I did research for that role.
From what I read, there is deportation and...
Many people die. Armenians and Turks.
That's World War one.
-But Turkey is not an war with Armenians.
Like Germany is not war with Jews.
They are residents. They expect to be protected.
The new scene was taken based on eyewitness reports.
Your character, Jevdet Bey, is the only reason they put it in Van
is running total cleaning
from the Armenian population
in Van. There is a telegram, there is an announcement.
-Now I don't say that something doesn't happen.
-Something...
-As soon as I was born here.
Yeah right?
-Yes.
-This is a new country.
So ignore the history and continue to live.
No one will destroy your house.
Nobody will destroy your family.
Hmm?
So let's enter open this blockage...
and celebrate.
Hmm?
-You know what Adolf Hilter said to his military commander
to convince them that the plan will succeed?
"Who remembers the eradication of Armenians?"
-And nobody remembers.
None.
[announcement]: For security reasons,
don't leave your bag without guarding it.
Veuillez garder avec vous
vos bagages a main en tout temps
pour des raisons de securite. -Roll up your long arms.
-Why? -Just roll it.
-I don't use drugs.
-Can you open the bag?
The number you gave me is inactive.
-They've already closed the production office.
-Who paid your bill? -What is the bill?
-The cost of your trip. -I pay for myself.
-I think this is for the film.
-Yes.
-Then why don't they pay?
-Because... they don't know I'm leaving.
They don't want to take it here, so I go alone.
I found a cameraman and we went to record this material.
I think the director might need extra recordings,
things that can be cut later.
- And what about digital effects, are the people lining up?
-Well that can still be added if that's what they want.
-Can you play one from this?
-Yes. -Can you turn it on?
- A little personal.
-Then go to a private place.
- "I'm here, Mom. Ani.
In the dream world, all three of us will be here together.
Your father and me.
I remember all the stories that I used to hear often. about this place.
Great city capital from our Kingdom.
Ancient history.
Like Dad's story used to be a freedom fighter--
fighting for this return , I think.
And then he died.
And something in me dies too.
What should I feel when I see these ruins?
And what do I believe that they are aging by time,
or I believe
that they have been intentionally destroyed?
Is this evidence of what happened? Am I supposed to feel anger?
Can I ever feel anger that you feel when "
-When he tries to kill
Turkish diplomat?
-How do you know? -You gave your passport to me.
Archives are saved.
You must be a child from a terrorist.
Please turn on the again?
"He tried to kill that person.
Why is he ready to submit us because of that?
Mother, what is the inheritance that should be
?
When I saw this place, I realized how much we lost. Not only the land and life,
but lost the way to remember.
There is no more here
that anything has ever happened.
[Turkish]
-Excuse, don't too close to the painting.
-I like to see the details.
Do you know anything about this artist?
-No, I understand a little from the lecture
that night.
What you left behind.
-What do you remember from the lecture?
-How does he suffer from it,
losing his family.
His mother died of starvation in his hand.
-When you see this painting,
can you understand?
-What do you understand? -That he will kill himself.
His house is gone, his family is destroyed,
can never be seen again.
This painting
shows the wound.
How hard it is.
He can't stand it.
[Armenian music playing]
-What do you think?
-I haven't done it yet.
-What have you read so far.
-Rouben...
I'm not the best appraiser for this.
I have never read a script before.
- Have you read the part where Gorky is pushing to the road
and taking a shotgun from a wounded Turk?
-Yes.
-I know Edward's style is a bit excessive but...
-That's really...
Good.
Listen...
maybe I would be happy if I really saw it.
This...
this is difficult for me to...
imagine this
As a child involved in the heroic defense of Van Gorky is an eyewitness to one of the bravest moments
in Armenian history.
But many years
see him losing his house, the people,
and the most dramatic, his beloved mother.
In his most famous painting, Gorky left
without finishing his mother's hand.
Like history from the composition,
like that of the people, has been violently disturbed.
Worldly sensuality from mother's touch is no more.
Only pure, burns the rest of the inner light.
- Excuse me.
You said before Gorky worked on the painting
10 years.
-Right. -That's possible
to do something as long as it is and not finished?
- The painting is already comfortable.
The hand of his mother is not finished deliberately made like that.
-Yes but...
Don't you think he has finished his mother's hand
and after that, decides to delete it?
That he must destroy what he has done?
Can we talk about killing him?
-No.
-Why? -Because it's not
what is the purpose to read today.
-I am just curious about how you describe that suicide
in your book. You make it like Gorky obsessed
remember from the destruction, but you don't talk about--
-... come to this event. -Ok. I just want to
talking about suicide.
-You say something to my father.
-That you have a love affair.
-Hey! Not!
Leave it.
-He brought a knife.
-Yes.
-So there is a certain level of thought ?
-That's a knife, something he always carried.
-Because you won't know when you need it.
-What do you mean? -I'm talking about work,
what he does for life!
Oh yeah, I know like that.
When he was arrested, the police found
he sells drugs, also various types of credit card fraud
on the internet. You are questioned about your involvement;
he urges you not has anything to do with it.
That's all in your archive. Is that true?
-What?
-What are you not involved in?
-I know about that.
-Well, you didn't tell anyone?
-No.
- so you have no problem with the fact that your sister
trade in drugs?
-Ah yes.
Most people...
clear about the crime they did.
In time I took them into this room,
only a matter of time before...
everything came out.
-What?
-Their drugs.
-I don't understand.
- My job is very simple, right.
I sit in your place,
I saw them in this restroom,
waiting for the truth,
Compressed oin heroin tablets.
Sometimes they are very nervous,
body acids break the pack and they are overused.
But it can take hours.
I sit and wait.
Usually quiet.
They have time to think. So do I.
Who knows what I think is Raffi?
I wonder if I should feel sorry for them.
They are usually children of your age;
I will destroy their lives.
I know they are sorry for their actions
and they will never ever go through it again.
But the action has been done. Too late.
-I have to go there.
-No doubt about that. Fire blazes in your heart.
You think everything will be clarified with...
go there. Not.
You lost meaning.
And people are very easy when they are attacked...
lost meaning.
They do stupid things.
-I don't lose meaning.
It seems that the meaning of from things has changed.
-What are you doing?
- There is something that I want to read to you.
-This, you are ridiculous. The attack on the painting
has nothing to do with this film.
-I won't continue this. -You must.
-What does this mean to you? -I am sick of.
-Because you feel responsible -Needless.
I'm sick because people don't do that.
-What, attacking art?
-What do you mean Ani? -Rouben, you're sick
because the painting is storage from our history.
That's a sacred code, which explains who we are and how and why we arrived here.
- Excuse, you may not cross. We are recording.
There are vandals. -Ok.
We will take care of this. -Oh, sis.
-What does he do? -Oh look at this.
- Requires hours to install this.
-I have to talk to you.
-Hope you pay I pay overtime.
- Please, we are recording a scene.
-Ok. We are cutting. -What is this? Shit!
We are surrounded by Turks.
We run out of stock. Most of us will die.
Many people need miracles. This child is bleeding.
If I can save his life, maybe gives us enthusiasm to continue.
This is his brother.
His sister is pregnant...
raped before his eyes,
before the stomach is sliced to stab an unborn child.
His father's eyes were gouged out of his head and put in his mouth.
And his mother's chest was torn.
He was left bleeding to death.
Who are you?
"In a volcano, where the life of an Armenian is dying,
a German woman, tries not to cry,
tells me the horror he witnessed.
I have to tell you what I saw
so that people will understand the crime they committed. "
" You have to dance, dance when the drum beats.
With anger, the crack broke the meat of the women.
Together, the woman's charmer starts the circular dance.
Dancing, they are charming.
Dancing until you die. "
[cracking whips and shouting]
" The bride is oiled.
'Dancing, they thundered.
There are more fragrant fragrances than any fragrance.
With a torch, they burn the bride.
And a charred body
rolled up to their deaths.
German woman looks at me and says:
"How do I get my eyes on ?"
Notify How?
[screaming]
This is Mother.
Madonna and child, on Aghtamar island,
where it all started.
I was there, when they recorded the scene.
That was the same day he attacked the painting.
The paintings are based on this.
I left Turkey a week later.
- Does he know you go to the island?
-Who? -Your mother.
-Don't know.
- Have you talked to him?
-Goal.
- People lose touch.
- There is something I want to ask.
-Yes?
-Are there no dogs who used to take care of this?
-What?
-Yes if you think there are drugs in this can...
-Yes, there's a dog for that.
-So... why not use it?
-What? -A dog.
- A dog will take what I really like about this job.
-What is that? -Opportunity to...
better understand how the mind works.
A dog will come and bark.
And that bark will mean one thing:
there are medicines in this can.
You lie. I caught you.
That's what dogs do.
-Right.
-I don't say that dogs are not important.
But there are...
some issues are involved. Yes, right?
The thing that dogs don't have is the capacity to consider.
A dog...
you will not know if he is retired,
that today is the last day,
the last interrogation.
Will someone pick you up?
-No.
-Good.
Maybe worry.
I'm even worried.
-About what?
-About you.
What will we do?
I have nothing to contact.
There is no way to ensure...
a word that you already said last night was true.
- Everything I've said is exactly what happened.
- My mother never said about what happened during the march.
Only one story. They have pomegranate trees
in the park.
And when they return to take the family away,
he took one.
He knows the journey will be long.
Every day, he will take one seed and eat it.
He'll bite bit by bit,
pretending that one seed whole food.
Try that.
When I eat pomegranate seeds,
it gives two things;
luck
and the power to imagine.
[beeping]
-Hello?
-Mother. Hi.
-Raffi?
Where are you Raffi? -I just returned to Toronto.
They stopped me here at customs,
with all the recordings that I got for the film.
They wonder what is inside the tin.
-What are you doing?
What are you talking about?
-The items that I have to record around Van.
They stopped me here in Customs and...
they want to open it, but it can't because. Because...
-Yes.
I miss you too.
I want to tell you a lot of things.
I went to Aghtamar. Aghtamar?
-I found the mother and the danc in the church.
I have a few days free, so I went to Aghtamar.
Here I will divert you to the inspector.
I think he wants to know more about what this film uses.
-Hello. Are you Mrs. Raffi? -Yes.
-What are you professors at the university?
-Yes, right.
-And you got involved in this film?
-Yes I'm hired by a history consultant.
A book I wrote is used as a reference.
-What about the book?
-It's about living from Arshile Gorky.
-What is the main character in the film?
-No.
-What does your child record in Turkey?
-He must go to the place where Arshile Gorky was born.
-Why?
-To record some ingredients. -And how is the material
will this be used?
-To show what happened.
-How did he die?
-Who?
-Gorky.
-Why ask for this?
- Did he kill himself?
[cheering and clapping]
-We have to go.
-Where are you?
-Where am I?
- Hear he's on the show the first film,
and he will call you ok?
-Hello? Can I talk to my child?
-So the movie is completely finished.
-Please let me talk to him.
Raffi?
-Yes.
-Sure.
I'll meet you at home.
-Marty, how do you respond to people
who said all this is just exaggerated?
-That, you know... This is documented.
And really every word I say
quoted directly from Ussher's personal record.
-Marty!
- That's where I met them, right on the train.
-Ke Ararat. -Yes. They record
an advertisement. -Advertisement?
-I became a friend with the cameraman and I told him
I want to take a picture with this. This.
I want to get a picture of Ararat.
-For what? - For the film. I think
it's something that can be used. How? The film is finished.
-I don't think about that.
He has to bribe a soldier to bring us up.
The military road is ok? You can't just go upstairs.
That's the sound. You can hear that above...
We go half way and then... We record this picture
from there. In this film.
-Why don't you tell me this before?
-I have to tell other stories.
-Why?
-Because that means to me...
-So this voice is on the side,
are crew people,
give you the film,
let you use the camera,
bribe a soldier...
and takes you above Mount Ararat.
-Yes.
- Did he ask for the reply?
-Who?
-Raffi....
Did he ask you to bring anything into this country?
-He asked me to bring the can.
-And what's inside?
-He said that was a movie.
-Why do you believe it?
-This.
Ani!
[screaming]
- Close the door.
-Can we turn off the lights?
-Why?
- So the film isn't broken.
-You are still sure.
-You can feel it in the dark.
-Ok Raffi. Turn off the lights.
For the last time,
what do you think in there?
-Film.
That's what he told me.
That's what I have to believe.
-And what happens if you don't believe?
-I will be a criminal.
-And how about if I say it's heroin?
-No.
-What makes you so sure?
-You turn on the lights.
-My friend? The arrival? International arrivals?
-You let him go?
-Yes.
-But what's in the tin?
- Will you believe if I say?
-What do you mean?
-Heroin.
-No. -Film?
-But I don't understand.
You check the can. -Yes. One.
-What inside?
-Ah it doesn't matter, for God's sake.
-Yah!
-I believe it. -But he lied to you
overnight. He...
He changed the story.
- More is said, is closer to the truth.
Until finally he said.
I can't punish it for being honest.
-But he smuggled drugs.
-He didn't think he was smuggling.
-How do you know?
-He doesn't believe he can do something like that.
- Daddy...
what do you think?
-You're Phillip.
I think of you.
-How do you respond to people
who said all this is just an exaggeration?
-This film is a type of film-- -There are visitors.
... you can do it once in your whole life.
Because it tells which story is true...
-Arshile Gorky was born in a small village
on the shores of Lake Van.
From the edge of the lake in the village,
Aghtamar island in ordinary view.
Gorky, as a child,
will go to this island with his mother,
which will show detailed engraving
on the church wall.
-Why show me this?
-This is the origin, from the memory of this place,
suitable in portrait, sketched,
in the painting.
You told me to go there.
I have to put something in my heart. If that will happen,
that will happen here.
That I was prepared to take off my whole life.
And last night, when we sat inside...
dark room,
when I heard he opened the can,
I feel it.
-What do you feel?
The ghost.
My father's ghost.